tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post8432644696663013975..comments2024-03-27T07:14:36.800-04:00Comments on <b>Dawn Potter</b>: Dawn Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-45177861655580129922011-11-18T07:26:42.345-05:002011-11-18T07:26:42.345-05:00Thank you so much for visiting. Like you, I think ...Thank you so much for visiting. Like you, I think the Vendler article is an important one--in implication as much as in substance--and I agree that the NYRB should open it up online to a wider readership. As much as V's scholarly limitations irritate me (and, as I know from my work with English teachers, poison many people's engagement with poetry), I think her remarks are brave. It is not easy for poets to claim solidarity with the old, as the WOMPO remark about "coded racism" makes clear. And yet. . . .Dawn Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-86359571672450879082011-11-17T23:28:51.434-05:002011-11-17T23:28:51.434-05:00I've been looking for comment about the Vendle...I've been looking for comment about the Vendler article, and found yours, with which I happen to be quite in agreement. I am no Vendler acolyte either--neither her book on Yeats nor the one on Dickinson seem of much value to me, and (like most people) I can't find anything in the poetry of Jorie Graham, of whom Vendler has been a huge exponent.<br /><br />That said, I think the article is a very important one, and I am shocked that NYRB has not removed it from behind the paywall to make it more generally available. In fact I have contacted them urging them to do so, as I think it could only be to their benefit to open the discussion.<br /><br />I see you keep returning to this topic, and each time, it seems to me, your comments strike exactly the right note.<br /><br />I'm not a follower of this blog, but just a cursory look reveals dogs, poetry, all the right stuff. I imagine you have a cultivated following, as evidenced by the above comment by Charlene. Those who know me will recognize that I am of one mind with Charlene when it comes to Keats.Mumfacolytehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06072964234469763561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-80751936843265889292011-11-17T09:16:24.706-05:002011-11-17T09:16:24.706-05:00I second the motion. All of it.
I cannot imagine ...I second the motion. All of it. <br />I cannot imagine a world -interior or exterior-where Keats doesn't matter. And I don't like being made to feel guilty for loving the art, angst, or even (on occasion) the pomposity of some poets of note. I prefer instead to sample what I see, read what intrigues me, and appreciate the whole of poetry as a collection of attempts to explain, to revisit, and to re-envision the world.Carlenenoreply@blogger.com